Ida
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Ida is a nymph who raised the infant Zeus alongside Adrasteia. She is described as a daughter of either Oceanus or Melisseus, and in some accounts fed Zeus in the cave of the goddess Night while the Kouretes guarded the entrance.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 1500 BCE
- Attested period
- -1500 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in sources from late 1st century BC through 2nd century AD as nurse of Zeus.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Melissa, Night, Eros, Chandra, Vaivasvata Manu, Ikshvaku, Hera, Aphrodite, Budha, Cronus, Rhea, Kouretes, Moirai, Themis
- parent of
- Pururavas
- aspect of
- Ila
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (4)
Source passages
“He is raised by the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, the daughters of Melisseus, and protected by the Kouretes”
#8980 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, daughters of Melisseus, to nurse, and they fed Zeus on the milk of the goat Amalthea”
#27518 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“According to Apollodorus, Rhea... gives him to the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, daughters of Melisseus, to nurse.”
#45246 · extracted by google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free